2 TDP MLAs suspended for interrupting Governor’s address

The Telangana House speaker suspended 2 TDP MLAs for interrupting the governor’s address in the Assembly.

Two MLAs of Opposition Telugu Desam Party were suspended on Saturday from the TelanganaLegislative Assembly for the remainder of the Budget session for apparently interrupting the Governor’s address to the State Legislature.

The main Opposition parties Congress, BJP and CPI(M) walked out in disapproval after their appeals for reconsidering the suspension of TDP members A Revanth Reddy and S Venkata Veeraiah–was not accepted.

On the first day of the Budget session, GovernorE S L Narasimhan addressed a joint sitting of the Legislature and his speech was allegedly disturbed due to sloganeering by these two TDP members.

As the House met for the day, Speaker S Madhusudanachary said he had pleased to the members of legislators to follow high values of dignity and decency and there are instructions to this effect as well.

It is not good on the part of the TDP members to conduct themselves otherwise, he said.

It was decided in the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) to run the House as per good standards of Parliamentary practices and that the Speaker had also made a request, Legislative Affairs minister T Harish Rao said it is sore that the two TDP members raised slogans during the Governor’s speech.

Later, the suspension of the two TDP members was announced by the Speaker.